U.K. car insurance premiums rose 1.8 percent in the first quarter of 2017, with motorists now paying an average of £781 ($949), which is £110 ($134), or 16 percent, higher than average premiums paid in the same period last year, …
Plum Underwriting, the London-based specialist home insurance managing general agent, announced the launch of cyber and data risks cover embedded within high net worth (HNW) and mid net worth (MNW) home insurance products in the UK. Plum’s Home Cyber covers …
Trade credit insurers paid claims to UK businesses in 2016, amounting to more than £4 million ($4.9 million) a week, or £210 million ($256.8 million), according to figures released by the Association of British Insurers (ABI). These claims due to …
Alan Boswell Group, the Norwich, England-based insurance broker and financial adviser, announced it has acquired Sutcliffe Solloway & Co. Ltd. (trading as Sutcliffe Insurance Brokers), thereby expanding its business into Lincolnshire, England. The financial terms of the acquisition were not …
RMC Group, a Naples, Fla.-based consortium of leading insurance and actuarial consulting firms, announced that Ryan S. Mitchell has been named president of its U.K.-based operation. Working out of RMC’s London office, Mitchell will coordinate and oversee RMC’s European reinsurance …
The City of London should emerge largely unscathed from Brexit even though thousands of banking and insurance jobs could move to the continent, the financial district’s policy chief said. The “City” or “Square Mile,” home to over 250 foreign banks …
One afternoon in mid-January, Prime Minister Theresa May walked into a meeting room in the Swiss resort of Davos to face Wall Street’s most powerful bankers. May had delivered her vision two days earlier for pulling Britain out of the …
London-based RSA has appointed James Gearey as managing director for Commercial Risk Solutions (CRS) from June 5, 2017, subject to regulatory approvals. Gearey has spent the past nine years at Siemens Financial Services, most recently as chief executive, Commercial Finance …
Luxembourg is becoming a serious contender among nations bidding for business to come their way after the U.K.’s exit from the European Union, as insurers, asset managers and financial-technology companies are interested in setting up shop in the Grand Duchy. …
American International Group Inc. plans to locate an insurance company in Luxembourg to ensure continued smooth operation of its business across the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland once the United Kingdom leaves the European Union. From 2019, AIG proposes …
